Trivia :
* Mitchell has appeared twice in "Neighbours" (1985): briefly in 1994 as Cassandra Rushmore, a parachute instructor; and in the more substantial role of student Catherine O'Brien 1996-1997.
* Has lived in Los Angeles, California, since 1997.
* Vegetarian and practices yoga.
* Woody Allen called her cellular phone personally to offer her the title role in Melinda and Melinda (2004). Radha was convinced that it was a prank until the script was delivered to her.
* Full given name, Radha-Rani, is the name of the true love/main consort of the god Krishna in Hinduism, followed by the word for queen (Rani - from various Indian languages).
* Her mother, who modeled on the Italian catwalk in the 1960s, had become enamored of India in the early '70s.
* The song "Elbows" by Darren Hanlon was written about Radha after he bumped into her in a disco.
* Sir Mick Jagger persuaded French customs officials to let her into France to attend the Cannes Film Festival when she forgot to bring a visa with her.
* Often consults acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.
* Despite being Australian, the poster of The Children of Huang Shi, which is Australian-Chinese co-production, advertised "Rahda" as her first name and later it got fixed in time for DVD.
* Sings karaoke.
* She was a telemarketer during her university days and used different accents to get her through the day when she was bored.
Quotes :
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
I never wanted to be a movie star.
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.
I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
[Explaining why she dropped the Rani] ... on my first day of school. Someone asked me if my name was Macaroni.
Any situation today could be a tragedy or a comedy, it just depends on the mood that you're in when you're experiencing it, and the mood of the storyteller who is telling it.
I went through a phase of not wanting to watch any movies at all, and lately I've got back into watching films, I think because I meet people that make them all the time, and I feel lik
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/radha_mitchell.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593664/bio